Marketpress Theme - FreeMarket

Hi WPMUDEV Members,

I have the pleasure of announcing a brand new theme for Marketpress.

Firstly, a massive thanks to aristath for building this theme and continuous tweaking.

FreeMarket is a Wordpress theme tailored for MarketPress stores. Its goal is to be a visually minimalistic theme, focused on usability. No complex configurations, just enable and you’re good to go. There are no administration pages added. Instead any available theme options are visible on WordPress’s theme customizer. And yes, it's responsive!

I am so glad that your themes are responsive. It is so important in today's market with the up-rise of smartphones and tablets.

I am setting up a network of e-commerce sites and I will be sure to keep your credits in my footers for my network. That should be enough inspiration for you to continue to develop your awesome themes.

I will post a link to my network in good time once I am finished with my development and happy that it's ready for the public. Hopefully the credits will give you some good exposure on my network.

My main site is currently using the Basic Market theme and I just love the simplistic & responsive look. It makes my main site look super modern.

Quick question: Currently the credits says the following: "Design by Themify • Modified for Tradr Pro Shops". I would like to point it to one link only if ok with you so therefor what will be ideal for you pointing it to Tradr or Themify?

Just touching base with you to let you now that I have indeed managed to get in and get it today and do not know how I missed it last night ... but of course that is typical 3 in the morning computing for ya.

@Fanus van Straten
Yes, AddThis is integrated.
However I'm thinking that FreeMarket might be better off with something a bit more "custom" than addthis...

Addthis is an external javascript and in fact it's the slowest part of a webpage when viewing a product. So I'm brainstorming and once I find a viable solution I'll probably switch to that... After all, we all want our pages to be lighter and faster.

One more thing that is pretty important about the FreeMarket theme is that I have also integrated multiple images slideshows for products.

So if a product has more than 1 images attached to it, then automatically they are converted to a slideshow.

@aristath - I tend to agree with you about the external javascript. I intend to make this network of mine as light weight as possible and it needs to be fast & simple.

Like the slideshow idea, will check it out. BTW, how does one "attach" an image other than the featured image?

I have noticed something else on the single product page and that is that the featured image gets posted at the bottom - any thoughts on that? I do like the fact that the price & buy now link is at the top instead of way at the bottom as in the case of Basic Market.

@Fanus van Straten
To attach an image to a a post and/or product, you can click on the "upload/Insert" link above the text editor. A media manager opens up. Just upload all your files there. No need to import them to the body or anything else... Simply uploading them there will do the trick. :slight_smile:

As for the single product page, the logic behind its structure is this:
We want to make it easier for customers to see what our product is all about, and we want to make it easier for them to buy.

So on the top we've got the price and the buy buttons, which are the most important part of our page.

Next, we want our clients to be able to figure out if this product is what they're looking for. And we accomplish that not using images, but using text. Let's face it... when looking to buy something online, what the text says is usually more important than the images.

At the bottom, we have our product images. The slider makes it easier to view many aspects of our product.

So the structure of the product page is actually a structure of importance.
Other than that, it just looks better and users don't have to scroll all the way down just to see the description of the product.

@johnnymestizo - I am going to work on my version next week. It's going to be an artwork site and I will try and keep it as close as possible to the intended look & feel without too much tweaking:wink:

@johnnymestizo - I am actually busy with a real site using your theme so once I am done with it and all the tweaking:wink: I will let you know. Thanks for the offer. That's why I love Open Source - Collaboration!

Well that depends... :slight_smile:
Maximum width for logos is 770px on screens that are larger than 1200px.
If the visitor has a smaller screen then the total width of the page is reduced (bootstrap is responsive) and if the logo doesn't fit, then it is automatically scaled to fit.

jonny apologies for late response just got my wife home from hospital took a week off to spend some time with my good lady !

thanks very much for your offer due to above a little delayed on finishing theme and site design etc - still working on integrating with amazon -for this project i'm trying to set up a seemless video games trade-in system

@johnnymestizo
yes it was to help my son earn some pocket money from amazon via affiliates but had a lot of interest in the trade in program - but very little time to actually develop may take a few weeks before its finished

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